iozone (www.iozone.org) is a benchmark program that i would like to have a go at packaging.
Im currently steping through the maintainers guide, in section 2.1 it says the program *must* have a license. I emailed one of the authors and told him i would like to package his program for debian, he says he wants to see it packaged as widely as possible, the only restriction he (as copyright holder) places on redistribution (source included) is that the name of the authors and contributors be included and not be removed. To me it sounds like it could be considered GPL, but thats about the only license im familiar with, i dont know the specifics of the Artistic license or BSD etc. Does the license have to fit into a known accepted lincense catagory, or can i just state in words what he told me and put that in as the license, knowing that it should be ok ? I guess whatever license debian distributes it as will have to get his aproval anyway, so maybe i should just press him a bit more and try and get a more specific answer from him, im not sure.. Advice apreciated Glenn McGrath
